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Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… Bonn, Germany in May 2011. This event brought together a small team of co-authors and advisors who agreed on the … the Protocol operational. It explains possible options for developing ABS policies and strategies, key components of ABS … in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States among them, and Parties with …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… differentiated regimes, the special needs and interests of developing countries and of countries with economies in … by indigenous people of developing states, particularly Small Island Developing States. At the domestic level, in addition …
Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… of their wetlands and to make known the results; developing further and disseminating the guidance presented … flow at certain periods (Fagan 1999). As a result, only small parts of cultivated lands were flooded and the impact … lagoon was temporarily drained at the site of a lost island, which included the 11th century Augustinian monastery …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… of continuous management and innovation by farmers, a small range of initial crops and varieties evolved into an … channel for increasing food security and nutrition in developing countries. The main challenge to increase food … with regard to plant genetic resources from the developing country perspective. However, it does not lay down any …
Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 6 Cultural heritage -- Wetlands -- a cultural landscape
… to the development of Asian societies. In Binong on the island of Java, Indonesians have been growing rice for … and distributes the water through a complex system of small channels, under a traditional social mechanism, to the …
Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 9 Wetlands and spiritual life
… and islands. A similar relationship is seen in India, a country where drought is common and often life-threatening. … India, every village main- tained its own sacred kund, or small lake. A grove of trees around the kund helped retain …